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Perfume is a new show exploring contemporary scent

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Perfume is a new show exploring contemporary scent

London – The exhibition at Somerset House looks at 10 perfumes through visual, audio and tactile references.

Beauty : Luxury : Fashion

SFF 2017: On Everyone’s Lips

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SFF 2017: On Everyone’s Lips

Stockholm – Note has worked with Italian chef Isabella Morrone to create a temporary dining space at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

Stockholm Furniture Fair 2017 : Food & Drink : Material Mischief

Micro Trends

Visual ASMR

Can slow motion make your heart beat faster? Digital creatives are drawing on sensory phenomena such as ASMR to develop a new type of visual fetish...

The E-motional Economy : ASMR : Tactility

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Touch point

South Korea – Dot is the first smartwatch made specifically for the blind and visually impaired.

Dot : Smartwatch : Awakening Tech

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Save for later

London – Interactive design studio Sennep is keeping its ideas fresh and its skills sharp with Seeds, a platform dedicated to digital experimentation.

Sennep : Interactive Design : Experimentation

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Dial for sound

London – Designer Gemma Roper is bridging the gap between the digital and physical with Spotify interface Radio Activity.

Gemma Roper : Radio Activity : Spotify

Getting a grip: The portable user interface that reads hand gestures

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Getting a grip: The portable user interface that reads hand gestures

Berlin – Hardware start-up Senic has developed Flow, a portable, gesture-controlled interface for computers and connected devices.

Senic : FLOW : Awakening Tech

HP’s new Sprout PC set to change how we interact with digital content

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HP’s new Sprout PC set to change how we interact with digital content

HP is releasing Sprout, a new desktop computer that aims to end mouse-and-keyboard interaction and change the way we engage with digital content.

Awakening Tech : Hewlett Packard : Sprout

New bio-reactive packaging could replace sell-by dates

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New bio-reactive packaging could replace sell-by dates

Bump Mark is a bio-reactive patch on food packaging that lets consumers feel when their perishables have expired.

Access For All : Food Packaging : Bump Mark

Design Directions

Google Cube

As media adjusts to consumers that are used to having things their own way, some film-makers are reconsidering this model and giving viewers grea...

Google Cube : Semi Permanent : Transmedia

Rubber soul: Designer creates furniture cast from rubber

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Rubber soul: Designer creates furniture cast from rubber

Milan – When working on her graduate project at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Nynke Koster realised she could use her interest in moulds a...

Royal Academy Of Art : Salone Internazionale Del Mobile : Milan

Touching taste: Schwartz creates a sonic poster

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Touching taste: Schwartz creates a sonic poster

London – Following their Sound of Taste television commercial, Schwartz and Grey London have taken to a new medium to express the flavours o...

Grey London : Schwartz : Sound

Central Saint Martins Textile Futures Work in Progress Show 2014

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Central Saint Martins Textile Futures Work in Progress Show 2014

Renowned for their innovative approach to material experimentation, the MA Textile Futures students at Central Saint Martins develop unique materia...

New Materials : Bio Tech : Biofacture

Tactile Hardware

Design Directions

Tactile Hardware

Designers are exploring the softer side of technology by using tactile, raw and primitive materials and finishes to produce electronics items.

Tactile : Sensorial : Alberto Fabbian

Dutch Design Week 2013

Design Directions

Dutch Design Week 2013

This year’s Dutch Design Week featured a wave of new designers whose experiments with the properties of raw materials demonstrated a fascination wi...

Tactile : Haptic : Geological

The beauty lab: A hands-on approach to wellness

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The beauty lab: A hands-on approach to wellness

Eindhoven – Design Academy Eindhoven student Nina van Bart has envisaged the future of beauty products in her graduation project, The Alchemist, on...

Cosmetics : Nina Van Bart : DAE

Hour hand: Watch lets you touch the time

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Hour hand: Watch lets you touch the time

Washington, DC – With The Bradley, a new wristwatch, you don’t need to look down to tell the time. The tactile timepiece can be read by touch alone...

Visually Impaired : Hyungsoo Kim : Lieutenant Bradley Snyder

Disney Research brings 3D touch to flat screens

Big Ideas

Disney Research brings 3D touch to flat screens

Disney Research brings 3D touch to flat screens.

Tactile : Disney Research : Friction

Soft touch: Clothing displayed on foam shelves

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Soft touch: Clothing displayed on foam shelves

Soft touch: Clothing displayed on foam shelves

Paris : Schemata Architects : Japanese Architects

Micro Trends

Hypersensoria

As technology and screen-based interaction pervade our lives, designers are creating new products for the home that appeal to our heightened intere...

Tactile : Michele Daneluzzo : Ritika Karnani

Feeling chirpy: BERG birds respond to Twitter feeds

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Feeling chirpy: BERG birds respond to Twitter feeds

Feeling chirpy: BERG birds respond to Twitter feeds

Tactile : Web Connected : Cuckoo Clock

Passport to Sparkle

Design Directions

Passport to Sparkle

Finding customers is one thing, but keeping them is another. At present, Millennials – those born between 1982 and 1991 who have an estimated spend...

Tactile : RO New York : Passport To Sparkle

Blood simple: Boccalatte extends body of work

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Blood simple: Boccalatte extends body of work

Australia – Creative agency Boccalatte, based in New South Wales, has created the next edition of its Trunk Book series, with a volume entirely abo...

Tactile : Trunk Book : Boccalatte

2013 International CES Review Part 1: Flexible Interfaces, Gen I and Self-Quant

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2013 International CES Review Part 1: Flexible Interfaces, Gen I and Self-Quant

Last week, thousands of exhibitors, start-up companies, industry analysts and journalists descended on Las Vegas for the 2013 International Consume...

Tactile : Innovation : Las Vegas

Become a model: 3D photo booth opens in Japan

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Become a model: 3D photo booth opens in Japan

Become a model: 3D photo booth opens in Japan

Tactile : Omote 3D : Omotesando

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